Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Air Quality

Filed Under: Sort of Good News for Boyle Heights

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 24, 2013 | No Comments

Haven’t had a chance to get that pesky blood test done yet to see if you’ve got lead coursing through your veins courtesy of the Exide battery recycling plant in time to meet the Oct. 31st deadline? You’re in luck! Of a sort, I guess. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of Delaware, where […]

Slow to Clean Up its Own Mess, Exide Demands Boyle Heights Residents Hurry Up and Submit Personal Injury Claims by Oct. 31st

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 17, 2013 | 5 Comments

In June of this year, Exide Technologies — owner of the embattled lead-acid battery recycling facility in Vernon — filed for Chapter 11 protection. This was the second such filing in 11 years. In mid-September, they won court approval to pay out $16 million in bonuses to ensure that they would be able to carry […]

The Los Angeles Times Wonders What Can Be Done About Freeway Pollution

By Damien Newton | Sep 3, 2013 | 5 Comments

The Los Angeles Times published a remarkable editorial today questioning why so little is done about the public health crisis caused by Southern California’s reliance on freeway travel. However, either because of confusion or lack of will, the editorial stops short of proposing any real solutions to the crisis. It merely note it exists. The first […]

Rock Me Like A Hurricane. Or a Tornado. Or an Impending Ice Age: the carbon cost of the LACMA rock.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 13, 2012 | 21 Comments

Like a lot of kids (or maybe not), I had a fascination with rocks when I was younger. That said, I was rather nonplussed by the idea of LACMA spending $10 million to put a granite boulder on its lawn. Thinking perhaps I was too cynical, I headed to Figueroa St., where the rock was […]

Go Frack Yourself: neighbors in Baldwin Hills turn out to talk fracking with Plains Exploration & Production and DOGGR

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 9, 2012 | 1 Comment

Last night, representatives from the Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), Plains Exploration & Production (PXP), the oil company in charge of the Baldwin Hill Oil Field, and other officials went head to head with members of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance and a highly a skeptical community in a […]

Q&A with Producer from ‘Up in the Air’ Report on Boyle Heights Air Quality (Part 2)

By Kristopher Fortin | Mar 9, 2012 | 3 Comments

(This is the second of a two-part interview. To read the first part, click here) Yesterday, Eastside Streetsblog published the first of two parts of an interview with KCET’s SoCal Connected Associate Producer Rocio Zamora on her elaborating on her story about Boyle Heights air quality. In this second part, Zamora talks about stories that didn’t […]

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